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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

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In the wheelchair division, Marcel Hug of Switzerland won the men’s race at 1:17:06 and Susannah Scaroni of the US won the women’s race with a time of 1:41:45. In percentage terms, Vietnam’s exports grew the most. Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

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Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. VF had committed itself to largely selling goods to consumers in the same region they are manufactured in. BOMs are critical for sourcing and manufacturing.

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Sales and Operations Alignment: Often The Missing Link

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It was a beautiful spring day in March in Basel, Switzerland. He had recently returned from his stint as the commercial leader for Syngenta in Vietnam, and was excited to tell me about his beach-side investment in Australia. They will be featured in our digital showcase and are a part of the Jabil story on digital manufacturing.